Mark Goldie


Mark Goldie is an English historian and Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written on the English political theorist John Locke and is a member of the Early Modern History and Political Thought and Intellectual History subject groups at the Faculty of History in Cambridge.
He was educated at the University of Sussex and obtained his PhD from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1979 he was appointed college lecturer at Churchill College and a university lecturer in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Upon his retirement in 2019 he became an honorary professor of history at the University of Sussex.

Personal life

Goldie is married to fellow historian Clare Jackson, who was once his doctoral student.

Works

  • "The Roots of True Whiggism 1688-94", History of Political Thought, 2.1, 195-236.
  • "John Locke and Anglican Royalism", Political Studies, 31.1, 61-85.
  • , The Politics of Religion in Restoration England.
  • , The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700.
  • , John Locke: Two Treatises of Government.
  • , John Locke: Political Essays.
  • , The Reception of Locke's Politics, 6 vols..
  • "The Unacknowledged Republic: Officeholding in Early Modern England", in The Politics of the Excluded, ed. by Tim Harris,, pp. 153-94.
  • , John Locke: Selected Correspondence.
  • , The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought.
  • , The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, 1677-1691, 6 vols.. 7th volume, 2009. Author of volume one: Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.
  • , Censorship of the Press, 1696-1720.
  • , John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings.
  • Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688,.